Juergen Klinsmann currently manages Bayern Munich, and before that has managed the German national side for their 2006 World Cup campaign (qualifying to 3rd spot playoff win). He’s a modern-methods manager who mixes an aggressive, tactical on-field approach with highly specialised off-field training and expert sports psychology.
Bayern Munich’s season has been a difficult one (and not just in the league) and after losing at home to Schalke hastened the inevitable. Jürgen Klinsmann has been sacked after a frank meeting with club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, general...
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On the eighth episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by the Guardian’s German expert and native Bavarian Raphael Honigstein to discuss German...
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Even the highest dose of “Aspirin” from pharmaceutical giants Bayer AG will do little to “Aleve” the migraines of Bayern Munich.
What a difference a week makes. It was all bear hugs and high fives after...
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About ten years ago Nick Hancock co-wrote a book called What Didn’t Happen Next, which was an amusing look at the butterfly effect in football and those little changes which might have rewritten the annals of football.
What if...
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Bayern Munich take on TSG Hoffenheim in the most anticipated game in the Bundesliga this season. Soccerlens takes a closer look at who will come out on top.
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Jurgen Klinsmann. Master of diversion – so everybody be cool, keine Panik!
A year ago, it was all about The Bayern Munich revolution led by the General, birds...
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If you’re a US soccer fan, I’m going to ask that you take yourself back to a dark time in our nation’s soccer history. Don’t worry, I feel your pain. On June 22nd, 2006, Ghana ended any US hope of advancing to the quarterfinals...
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The 2008 edition of the European Championships was an unbridled success. The quality of play, the desire to compete by the participants on the field and the enthusiasm of the crowd were all of the highest order.
A few weeks ago. as a preview...
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Bayern Munich’s superstars Franck Ribery and Luca Toni can expect to sleep on the job next season as new coach Jurgen Klinsmann introduces radical changes – including beds in the team room.
Klinsmann is set to replace Ottmar Hitzfeld...
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As a sportsman he has already written a chapter for himself in German footballing history, and is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest strikers to have graced European football in the 1990s.
As a businessman he’s less known (neither...
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